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Please see our new “ Team Foundation Server team blog ”, which contains postings from all of TFS. This blog will NOT be deleted, since it contains so much valuable information. Over time, select posts on this blog will be reposted to the “ Team Foundation...

I started this series with a set of topics and broke the first one down into sub topics to cover the out-of-the-box experience in detail. With my last post , I covered the dashboards portion of the experience. Let’s look at the new SQL Reporting Services...

In my last post , I covered the topic on creating a team dashboard. Let’s look at the dashboard experience on Windows SharePoint Services / SharePoint Foundation: SharePoint Dashboards SharePoint Server dashboard Out-of-the-box experience Customizing...

In my last post , I covered customizing the SharePoint Server dashboard. The next topic is creating a team dashboard: SharePoint Dashboards SharePoint Server dashboard Out-of-the-box experience Customizing the dashboard Creating a team dashboard Windows...

In my last post , I covered the out-of-the-box experience with SharePoint Server dashboard. Let’s look at the next item on the list, customizing the dashboard: SharePoint Dashboards SharePoint Server dashboard Out-of-the-box experience Customizing the...

In my last post , I outlined the out-of-the-box reporting options available in 2010: SharePoint Dashboards Rich SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports Excel Reports from Work Item Queries Let’s walkthrough the dashboard experience when you integrate TFS...

This is the first chapter in the series on Reporting in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. In this series, I’ll cover the following topics: Walkthroughs for out-of-the-box experience including customizations Custom report authoring tools and walkthroughs...

In configuring the integration between Team Foundation Server and SharePoint Products, one of the most common errors we see in Beta 2 is: TF249038: The following Web service is not available: http://servername/_vti_bin/TeamFoundationIntegrationService...

Table of Contents Principles Definitions Available Download Compat Matrix       2010 Team Explorer Client to the 2008 Team Foundation Server       2008 Team Explorer Client without the Forward Compatibility...

Although many scenarios have been enabled in the VSTS Beta 1, there are a number of compatibility issues which are still being working on.     * List of Known Issues and Workarounds 1) Team Foundation Server 2010 administrative functions are...

· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow you to enable it. Open Excel Select the Windows Menu Select Excel Options Go to Add-Ins Manage Add-Ins Sometimes you need to look under Disabled Items Select...

A long time ago (almost 2 years ago), I blogged about how to customize link types. Since the Beta1 has been released, I thought it would be useful to reblog this information. Here are the links. The information is still valid. Rosario - Customizing...

TFS will be providing a General Distribution Release (GDR) to enable older versions of Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer to work with 2010 TFS. Releasing these GDRs will allow teams to move forward even when some people are not ready due to legacy...

Last month, Brian Harry outlined some of the new features in the setup and administration experience for TFS 2010 here . This post drills into how SharePoint integration works for Beta1. Installation In TFS 2010, we’ve separated the installation from...

Although many scenarios have been enabled in the VSTS Beta 1, there are a number of compatibility issues which are still being working on.     * List of Known Issues and Workarounds 1) Team Foundation Server 2010 administrative functions are...

Team Foundation Server 2010 is a BIG release for us by all counts. We have made conceptual changes; Brian introduced some of the key concepts in TFS 2010 that includes the concept of Team Project Collections (TPCs). These changes required a lot of infrastructure...

Today I am going to look at two interesting fields in the Warehouse related to Work Items – Previous State, and State Change Count. The Previous State field stores the state a Work Item was in before it entered its current state. This field is in the...

In the last post in this series , Gregg blogged about restricting a bug such that only the creator can close it . This is the last post in this series of workarounds that we have been blogging about. We saved this as the grand finale for our series.  ...

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about saving the resolved reason . (You’ve probably figured out that we have “tag-teamed” this blog series). So anyway, here is the next item in the series.  Customers have asked us: “I only want the...

I just saw that Loic Baumann posted a tool on codeplex called WIT Synchronizer . It provides two pieces of functionality that has often been requested. “I’ve made a change to my Process Template, how do I push those changes to existing projects” “I’ve...

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about securing a work item type . Another question along these lines: “How can I save the resolved reason? I want to create metrics based on how bugs were resolved, but the value of the ‘Reason’ field is...

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Deactivating a work item type . Here’s another popular request: “Secure creation of a work item type”. For example, people say: “Only my Testers can create bugs” “Only my Business Analysts can create...

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about forcing selection of reason . Let’s take a look at another question that we often get: “How do I deactivate/retire a work item type? I don’t want to destroy the type because I want to report on it,...

Compensating Records What are compensating records? First a little background. Whenever a work item is updated a new revision is created. These revisions are moved over to the Warehouse and stored in the various Work Item Dimension and Fact tables...

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Closing down an iteration . Let’s take a look at another question: “ How do I force people to select a reason? ” We’ve had people come to us with the request to force their users to select a reason...